Russian invasion
UNHCR: Five million displaced people from Ukraine
A mother is waiting with her daughter for a bus to flee the city of Sloviansk. Photo: Petros Giannakouris/AP/dpa
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The flow of refugees from the Ukraine does not stop. In order to escape from Russian aggression, millions have to leave their homes.
According to current calculations, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) assumes that more than five million people have fled Ukraine from the Russian war of aggression.
“That’s five million individual fates full of loss and trauma,” UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements said at a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday. António Vitorino of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) added that there were around 7.1 million people who had fled their homes within Ukraine.
At the meeting, member states discussed the need for more support for refugees and for an end to the war. It was the sixth meeting of the Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine since the war of aggression began almost two months ago on February 24. Their UN ambassador Serhiy Kislizia criticized the fact that the Security Council continues to treat Russia as a full member. “Colleagues, it seems to me that these meetings will not change much,” said Kislizia.